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Timeline 1483-86 Flashcards

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when did Hastings persuade the minority council in London to reduce Edward V’s escort (led by Rivers) from Ludlow to 2,000 men?

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April 1483

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when did Edward IV die?

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9 April 1483

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when did Richard of Gloucester set off from York having received news of Edward IV’s death from Hastings?​

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23 April 1483

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when did Earl Rivers (Anthony Woodville) and Richard Grey meet Richard of Gloucester at Northampton?

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29 April 1483

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when did Gloucester arrest Anthony Woodville (Rivers) and Richard Grey and then seized Edward V (at Stony Stratford)?

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30 April 1483

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when did Gloucester and Edward V enter London on the date for the (now delayed) coronation?

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4 May 1483

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when was Gloucester appointed as protector by minority council?

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4 May 1483

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when did Queen Elizabeth and her children go into sanctuary?

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4 May 1483

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when did the Council refuse the execution of Rivers and Richard Grey.?

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May 1483

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when were Gloucester’s allies (esp. Buckingham) promoted and Woodvilles purged?

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15 May 1483

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when did Edward Woodville and Dorset escape?

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15 May 1483

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when was Ratcliffe sent north with letters from Gloucester to York & Hull, Northumberland and Lord Neville for military aid?

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10 June 1483

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when did Richard seize Hastings, John Morton, Thomas Rotherham and Lord Stanley. Hastings summarily executed.​

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13 June 1483

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when was the Bastardy of princes preached by Ralph Shaw?

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22 June 1483

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when was Richard of York removed from sanctuary to attend his brother’s coronation, which was then cancelled.?

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16 June 1483

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when were Rivers and Grey executed at Pontefract on Richard’s order?

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25 June 1483

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when did Buckingham press Londoners to accept Richard as king?

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25 June 1483

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when were Unsuccessful attempts made by John Cheney to rescue the princesses from sanctuary and the Princes from the Tower?

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July 1483

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when did Richard of Gloucester accept the crown.?

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26 June 1483

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when were the Last reported sightings of the Princes in the Tower?

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July 1483

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when did Margaret Beaufort and Elizabeth Woodville scheme to marry Henry Tudor to Elizabeth of York and put them on the throne?

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August 1483

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when did Buckingham leave London for Brecon (John Morton)?

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2 August 1483

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when did Henry Stafford (Buckingham) write to Henry Tudor urging him to join the rebellion but making no suggestion that Tudor was the figurehead?

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24 September 1483

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when did Rebellion spread throughout southern England?

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when was Buckingham executed as a traitor at Salisbury?
2 Nov 1483
26
when did Henry Tudor’s small force arrive off the coast of Plymouth and wait a couple of days before returning to Brittany?
mid-november 1483
27
when did Richard III return to London having completely crushed the rebellion.?
25 Nov 1483
28
when did many leading rebels including Dorset and the bishops of Ely, Salisbury and Exeter join Henry Tudor in Brittany.?
November 1483
29
when did Henry Tudor pledge to marry Elizabeth of York​?
Christmas day 1483
29
when did Parliament confirm Richard III’s title and the bastardisation of Edward IV’s children (Titulus Regius)?
Jan 1484
30
when were 104 people attainted for treason and their lands forfeited? (Only about a third were later pardoned by Richard III and restored)
January 1484
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when did Richard III begin to install loyal supporters (often northerners) in the south? (e.g. Sir Richard Ratcliffe, who was granted lands to the value of £650 per annum in Dorset, Somerset and Devon.)
January 1483
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when did Elizabeth Woodville (‘Dame Elizabeth Grey’) and her now-bastardised daughters agree to return to Richard III’s court?
1 march 1484
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when did Edward of Middleham, only legitimate heir and son of Richard III die?
april 1484
34
when was Lincoln put in charge in the North?
april 1484
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when did Richard III sign a 3-year truce with Scotland at Nottingham?
sep 1484
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when did Henry Tudor fled to France?
sewptember 1484
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when was there a Plot to incite a revolt in Essex?
november 1484
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when was William Collingbourne arrested for inciting an invasion by Henry Tudor (and pinning his rhyming verse on St. Pauls in July)
october 1484
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when was . John de Vere sprung from Hammes Castle??
november 1484
39
By this time the French court of Charles VIII was providing direct financial assistance to Henry Tudor.​
november 1484
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when did Richard III’s illegitimate son, John of Gloucester, became Captain of Calais?
early 1485
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when did queen anne neville die?
march 1485
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when was Richard forced to publically deny any intention to marry Elizabeth?
march 1485
43
when did Henry Tudor set sail from Harfleur with a small French-backed invasion force of c.500 loyal exiles who had joined him, and at least 1500 French soldiers?
1 august 1485
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when did Henry Tudor land near Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire, Wales?
7 august 1485
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when did Henry Tudor win over Rhys ap Thomas, the most influential landowner in South Wales?
12 august 1485
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when did Henry Tudor reach Shrewsbury in England with an army swollen to around 5000 men?​
15 august 1485
47
when did Richard III recruit forces to deal with the invasion and gathered them centrally at Nottingham Castle?
mid-august 1485
48
when was the battle of bosworth?
22 august 1485
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when was Sir Robert Willoughby sent to Sheriff Hutton in Yorkshire to secure Elizabeth of York, and Edward, earl of Warwick, and bring them both to London?
late august 1485
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when was the coronation of henry vii?
30 october 1485
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when was the first parliament of henry vii?
7 november 1485
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when did Parliament annul Titulus Regius and the Act of Bastardisation of Edward IV’s children?
mid-january 1486
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when did Henry VII marry Elizabeth of York?
18 January 1486
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